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Forests Quotes - Page 4

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

"George Harrison honoured by tree in Los Angeles after beetles ate predecessor" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2015.

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.

"Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest". www.yesmagazine.org. December 05, 2012.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

"Rupert Sheldrake: the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2012.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.

Willis Gaylord Clark (1851). “The literary remains of the late Willis Gaylord Clark: Including the Ollapodiana papers, The spirit of life, and a selection from his various prose and poetical writings”, p.445

The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.454, Penguin